"A holy war is a contradiction in terms. War dehumanizes, war diminishes, war debases all those who wage it."

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That Marxism should triumph in Russia, where there is no industry, would be the greatest contradiction that Marxism could undergo. But there is no such contradiction, for there is no such triumph. Russia is Marxist more or less as the Germans of the Holy Roman Empire were Romans.

— Jose Ortega y Gasset